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To: NickSE who wrote (28836)	4/24/2000 7:27:00 PM
From: pater tenebrarum	Respond to of 42523

dot coma.

To: NickSE who wrote (28836)	4/24/2000 7:29:00 PM
From: Joseph Beltran	Respond to of 42523

have a laugh: messages.yahoo.com

To: NickSE who wrote (28836)	4/24/2000 9:31:00 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42523

Dot-Com Bomb nymag.com The second Great Web Wipeout, which we have now entered, has also, arguably, been caused by a magazine article -- last month's story in Barron's charting the burn rate of a long list of public Internet companies. By calculating the monthly cash burn against cash on hand, Barron's identified a plausible moment of bankruptcy for each of these enterprises. The fact that Internet companies would have to continue to seek new investment capital, seemed, suddenly, like shocking news -- like a hot knife through butter -- and by the end of the week after the Barron's article appeared, the current wipeout was well under way.